Manmade Climate Change Hoax Or Real Life Essay

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Manmade climate change, Hoax or real life?
By: Jase Romine
2/21/2014

The climate crisis of the 21st century seems to be all about climate change and or global warming. Many people think the most of the manmade climate is being caused by the world’s largest companies that use the most power, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests. The companies range from investor owned firms, household names such as Chevron, Exxon and BP to state owned and government ran companies. The analysis say that, which has been welcomed by the former Vice President Al Gore as a "crucial step forward" found that most of the majority of the companies were in the business of producing oil, gas or coal. (Kenny)
Half of the estimated emissions were produced in the last 25 years alone. Well past the date when governments and corporations became aware that rising greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and oil which is causing dangerous climate change. Many of the same companies are also sitting on substantial reserves of fossil fuel which if they are burned puts the world at even greater risk of dangerous climate change. Climate change experts said the data set was the most ambitious effort so far to hold individual carbon producers, rather than governments, to account for. 90 companies on the list of top emitters produced 63% of the cumulative global emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 to 2010, amounting to about 914 gigatonne CO2 emissions, according to the research. All but seven of the 90 were energy companies producing oil, gas and coal. The remaining seven were cement manufacturers.
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...a man of God I think we need to try our best to take care of the world and try to live the best life we can that will please God. He gave us this earth so we should take care of it the best we can. We have a role of caretakers, we are to appreciate the functionality and beauty of the environment. In His incredible grace and power, God has placed on this planet everything needed to feed, clothe, and house the billions of people who have lived on it since the garden of Eden.
All the resources He has provided for our needs are renewable, and He continues to provide the sun and rain necessary to sustain and replenish those resources. And if this were not enough, He has also decorated the planet in great color and beauty to appeal to our sense and thrill our souls with wonder! Obviously as Christians, we should be doing what we can to be true stewards of God's creation.

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